This is a unique role that combines data science, human interaction, product understanding, and teaching/training/evangelism. As such, we’re looking for a unique individual, not a specific resume template. As a rough guide there, we think a successful person in this role will…

Have familiarity with a wide range of tools, and an interest in staying up to date on the latest techniques and trends in data science (e.g., R, Python, deep learning, h2o, scikit-learn, caret, etc)

Be deeply motivated by helping people achieve their goals. You find it rewarding and satisfying to give someone advice, sample code, or training that lets them work better and complete projects faster.

Enjoy interacting with people, teaching them new things, showing them new techniques.

You could have a Master’s Degree in operations research, applied statistics, data mining, machine learning, physics or a related quantitative discipline. Alternatively, you could have at least 3-5 years of applied "industry" data science experience. We are not hung up on credentials, we just want the best data scientist we can find who is rigorously pragmatic, inventive, and can deliver solutions requiring short feedback loops for delivery. You have a deep understanding of statistical and predictive modeling concepts, machine-learning approaches, clustering and classification techniques, and recommendation and optimization algorithms.

Friday, September 11, 2015

FireEye, a company that "provides real-time threat protection to enterprises and governments worldwide" is looking to hire a remote senior data scientist. If you're interested in cyber security and meeting the following requirements, you should check it out:

Experience in applying a wide variety of unsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques, and the ability to turn big data into actionable intelligence.

Polyglot - able to learn and contribute using different languages and technologies